Overdiagnosis. Sick, healthy, or in-between. MANDATORY PhD course for the programme Clinical and Pharmacological Medicine (CPM)(2023)

Overdiagnosis. Sick, healthy, or in-between

Medical technology is vastly expanding, and self-assessment has become a big part of being healthy. Alongside, population screening is emerging, and diagnostic thresholds change, which means that even small deviations from “the normal” will be categorized as diseases. At the same time, new diseases emerge, and owing to this, increased numbers of treatments and check-ups will be needed.

This PhD course provides an overview of overdiagnosis, overdetection, misdiagnosis, and overtreatment, and following that, causes, drivers, mechanisms, and incentives to overdiagnosis.

The topics will include

·       Overdiagnosis. What it is and what it isn´t.

·       Health culture and the quest for avoiding diseases and death

·       What is the diagnostic accuracy of a test when overdiagnosis occurs?

·       Self-monitoring and” digital health”

 

The course will be based on short lectures, group discussions, cases from epidemiological and qualitative studies, and analyzing and scrutinizing study designs.

The attendees will gain competences into the design and interpretation of clinical research beyond the Baysian diagnostic paradigm of a simple 2x2 table. In addition, they will get a perspective on how digital self-monitoring will change the culture and concept of health and disease.

The PhD course will be of interest to any researcher working with clinical research, digital health, diagnostics, screening, population-based research, and epidemiology.

Organizer: Associate Professor, Niels Holmark Andersen, n.holmark@rn.dk

Lecturers: Associate Professor Alexandra Brandt Ryborg Jønsson & Professor John Brandt Brodersen

ECTS: 1,5

Dates:  8 November 2023

Time: 8.30 – 15.30

Deadline: 

Place:    Auditoriet ved forhallen, Sygehus Syd
              

Important information concerning PhD courses:


We have over some time experienced problems with no-show for both project and general courses. It has now reached a point where we are forced to take action. Therefore, the Doctoral School has decided to introduce a no-show fee of DKK 3.000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start. This can hopefully also provide new students a chance to register for courses during the year. We look forward to your registrations.